Category: Elon Musk

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Tuesday briefing: What Reform UK might get from Elon Musk's $100m – The Guardian

In today’s newsletter: With rumours of the political party courting a game-changing investment, people are asking not only what they might do with the money, but what the tech titan might get in return
Good morning. I don’t know how long Elon Musk spent mulling over his rumoured suggestion that he might give $100m to Reform, but since it amounts to about 0.02% of his total wealth, I imagine it will have taken about as much time as most people spend mulling over a Christmas book token for […]
Tuesday briefing: What Reform UK might get from Elon Musk's $100m – The Guardian

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Who voted for Elon Musk? – The Boston Globe

Until last week’s budget debacle, Elon Musk was a warm-up act for President-elect Donald Trump.
Like the many adulatory openers at Trump rallies and Republican gatherings, he amped up the crowd — but strictly in preparation for the main act. While Democrats like to flash star power at events — A-listers, movie stars, and pop icons — in today’s Republican Party, Trump is
But the rise of Musk as a political figure means that another successful, powerful businessman is potentially […]
Who voted for Elon Musk? – The Boston Globe

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Meet the power players at Elon Musk's xAI, the startup taking on OpenAI with its Grok chatbot

Elon Musk’s startup xAI is one of the newer players in the artificial intelligence race, but that hasn’t stopped it from bringing in top talent and soaring to a valuation of $50 billion in just 16 months.
Launched by Musk in July 2023 to take on OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, xAI’s lofty goal is to “understand the universe.”
The startup began with a team of 12 people who, prior to joining Musk’s latest moonshot, worked at the likes of Google DeepMind, Tesla, OpenAI, and Microsoft. It has […]
Meet the power players at Elon Musk's xAI, the startup taking on OpenAI with its Grok chatbot

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New York Subway Attacker Is Migrant Who Was Deported, Elon Musk Reacts – NDTV

Hours after a woman aboard the New York subway was set on fire, billionaire Elon Musk reacted to the news of the suspect being an immigrant from Guatemala who had been previously deported.“Wow,” Mr Musk responded on X to a news article detailing Sebastin Zapeta’s past.
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New York Subway Attacker Is Migrant Who Was Deported, Elon Musk Reacts – NDTV

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Elon Musk's X raises Premium+ subscription to $22 per month | Mashable

Here’s a holiday gift from Elon Musk to X’s most loyal customers: The cost of your subscription is going up by nearly 40 percent.
According to a new page on X’s Help Center titled Premium+ Price Adjustment, the X Premium+ subscription will now cost $22 per month in the U.S., up from the previous $16 monthly fee. Annual subscription costs to X Premium+ are also rising, from $168 to $229 per year.
The move from Musk’s social media platform was announced over the weekend and officially went into […]
Elon Musk's X raises Premium+ subscription to $22 per month | Mashable

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With 'prime minister' talk, the GOP line on Elon Musk takes a weird turn – MSNBC News

If there were any doubts about Elon Musk’s political influence in the contemporary Republican Party, they were largely erased last week. After all, the world’s wealthiest individual managed to play a leading role in derailing a bipartisan spending bill negotiated by the GOP’s own elected congressional leaders.
What’s more, as the process unfolded, Republicans made no secret of the fact that they were in frequent communication with Musk — keeping him in the loop and updating him on the […]
With 'prime minister' talk, the GOP line on Elon Musk takes a weird turn – MSNBC News

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Who Are Elon Musk's Friends, Investors and Family? – The New York Times

These people have fueled Mr. Musk and his businesses. Over the years, they’ve invested millions of dollars in SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company, X and xAI. Some have gained board seats or become close friends with Mr. Musk for their loyalty.
Mr. Jurvetson is a longtime Silicon Valley venture capitalist and was an early investor in Mr. Musk’s SpaceX, where he is a board member. He is also a superfan of Mr. Musk’s. On a podcast in 2020, he praised the billionaire for being […]
Who Are Elon Musk's Friends, Investors and Family? – The New York Times

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Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage's Reform UK – The Guardian

Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands
Ministers are resisting demands to rush through measures to block Elon Musk from handing millions to Nigel Farage, amid a growing clamour for an overhaul of Britain’s political donation laws.
The government is facing mounting calls this weekend for an urgent clampdown that would limit the amount a foreign national can donate via their UK-based companies.
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Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage's Reform UK – The Guardian

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Chris Christie says Trump will dump Elon Musk when he needs a scapegoat

Musk will ‘become the person to blame’ by Trump when something goes wrong, predicts the former New Jersey governor
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Chris Christie says Trump will dump Elon Musk when he needs a scapegoat

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Why Elon Musk said a House Democrat 'needs to be expelled' from Congress

After Elon Musk helped derail a bipartisan spending bill with misinformation, Rep. Richie Neal made no effort to hide his frustration. The Massachusetts Democrat — the ranking member on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee — asked, “Can you imagine what the next two years will be like if every time that Congress works its will, and then there’s a tweet, or from an individual who has no official portfolio, who threatens members on the Republican side with a primary, and they […]
Why Elon Musk said a House Democrat 'needs to be expelled' from Congress